ScottBoltwood

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Biography

Chair, English Department

Stuart Professor of Literature and Drama

Scott Boltwood teaches a wide variety of topics from ancient literature and philosophy, through the first half of Major British Writers, to Twentieth-Century English literature. However, his scholarly interest in firmly focused on Irish literature; he has written articles on several Irish playwrights, including Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), Brian Friel (b. 1928), Stewart Love (b. 1934), and Frank McGuinness (b. 1953). He is author of Brian Friel, Ireland, and The North (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and editor of Renegotiating and Resisting Nationalism in 20th-Century Irish Drama (Oxford University Press, 2009)). He has been a Research Fellow at the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages, Londonderry (2003-04), Visiting Professor at The Queen’s University, Belfast (2008), and returned to Queens as a Fulbright Scholar in Drama (2011-12). He is currently working on several projects associated with Belfast’s Ulster Group Theater.